On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:56 +0100, guenther wrote: > > I have not completely understood exactly what causes it but through many > > versions of evolution right up to and including the 2.4.1 I am using > > right now, sometimes I will click on a message and it will come up in > > the preview window and the status bar will say "Formatting message > > (...)". That message will then be stuck in the preview window and > > clicking on new messages does not change it. > > > > The common issue seems to be HTML messages with image references in them > > (which I am not loading). I have one in particular that causes the > > problem frequently. It also seems to happen frequently if I plow > > through the described kind of message quickly. If I give evolution > > enough time to complete rendering it seems to happen less. > > > > I have to restart evolution to be able to see new messages in the > > preview window at this point. > > > > Any ideas? > > Evolution currently seems to insist on rendering (and in the case of > IMAP retrieving) the mail, while navigating through the mal list with > the "preview" pane enabled. This is not interruptible, AFAIK. > > If you got mails that reproducibly trigger bad behavior, please consider > filing a bug report and attaching that message to the report (the raw > mail, do not copy-n-paste it). > > > I have seen mails (particularly viruses), that take long to render, > maxing out the the CPU. And I have seen mails crashing Evo. I haven't > seen any mail yet though, that "renders forever" and forces the user to > kill Evo... HTH
I have. Always HTML mail. Disabling loading images from the internet resolved it. -- Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
